E-Cigarettes Going the Way of Cigarettes?

5/1/2014 4:59PM

New York and Chicago's bans on e-cigarettes in public places may be the beginning of tougher regulations for the nicotine alternative. Dave Dobbins, chief operating officer at Legacy, an anti-smoking organization, joins the News Hub. Photo: Getty

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... I ... know what I hear in ... the New York bars and restaurants added eighty electronic age and it all the same places as regular stuff ... could this be getting tougher regulations for the cigarette alternative here with his take is a Dow that its chief operating officer at the anti soaking organization like the ... idea Acer being here ... yet noon ... I am going into play today they failed a similar ban is taking place in Chicago ... he think this is just the tip of the ice arena teams Seymour cities take this approach ... I certainly think so um ... the cigarette paper and public places ... really is something that doesn't need to be tolerated it's a ... it's a chemical it's probably safer than cigarette smoke ... but that that's the lowest consumer safety bar you could possibly imagine ... common people the still one of the exposed to Knox is the use of put out by others whether comes from a key cigarette or a regular cigarette ... and your pet has been focusing a lot lately on the FX e cigarettes have on young people would you surveyed young adults to see what they thought of the product when they have to say ... well this is the problem is they're certainly interested in that in its for reuse and there's a lot of advertising going on in much of it is from the old cigarette playbook of ... going places where kids are ... so ... it's no surprise there is ... virtually universal awareness of the prior among kids in some of them are curious and we're seeing the real ... upset of kids who are trying them ... now we have seen the studies that say an e cigarettes help Wayne people off of ... the traditional cigarettes so what's your take are you going to wait to get traditional smokers to quit Aaron and ate way that's in every an awful new generation people hooked on nicotine ... I don't think we know the answer to that yet and I and I think the problem is is the cigarettes are being introduced into a market where we have the regular cigarette the most deadly Consumer Prada ... that's ever been devised ... so if it inspires people to use that product we're going to have a real problem I would say in a world where they are by themselves they're certainly ... not going to be as dangerous as the cigarette that is the overall public health impact of how it affects ... cigarette use among the population recorded after carefully monitor and it's a good thing ... that the FDA is taking steps to regulate ... you sir that's cuz it's going to be an important question for public health ... and was in the FDA regulations for e cigarettes follow all that sort of like I'll what they're regulations are for traditional cigarettes when you think it does two things Eli in the axial a bit more careful in how we approach regulating the cigarette ... dollar happy the FDA is taken the first step here that India and that ... it's can be incumbent upon them ... to make sure that you cigarettes are marketed to people ... under eighteen they taken the step of making it ... illegal to sell the people under eighteen ... they need to stop marketing practices that clearly directed towards the it that hopefully they'll be able to take that next step expeditiously ... right table CF more cities Allen York's lead to you thanks for joining us ...